Clark Haaland
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Clark Haaland
I wrote in Faith, Hope and Carnage , ‘Hope is optimism with a broken heart'. This means that hope has an earned understanding of the sorrowful or corrupted nature of things, yet it rises to attend to the world even still. We understand that our demoralisation becomes the most serious impediment to bettering the world. In its active form, hope is a... See more
The Red Hand Files Issue #308
Nick Cave Quote:
Entrepreneur Ben Chestnut on the importance of momentum:
"Never sacrifice momentum. I might know a better path, but if we've got a lot of momentum, if everyone's united and they're marching together and the path is O.K., just go with the flow. I may eventually nudge them down a new path, but never stop the troops mid march."
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"Never sacrifice momentum. I might know a better path, but if we've got a lot of momentum, if everyone's united and they're marching together and the path is O.K., just go with the flow. I may eventually nudge them down a new path, but never stop the troops mid march."
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3-2-1: On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
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Getting Lucky
4 Dec 2024 — 5 min read
Photo by Jakob Cotton / Unsplash
... See moreLuck isn’t a constant, it increases with surface area: be in the right places, have lots of conversations, put yourself out there, ask for what you want and be optimistic and positive.
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmutation of energy and matter, despite living in bodies and minds whose cells and ideas are constantly being replaced, we so vehemently resist change, too
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
5-Bullet Friday — The Odd Benefits of Donating Blood, My HBS Case Study, A Tool for Using Miles and Points, The Proust Questionnaire, and More
Essay
The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard
Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallying completed goals against abandoned ones. But this transactional lens obscures something crucial: your year wasn’t a list of discrete events. It was part of an unfolding narrative, a chapter in who
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2026 prep
You wrote that the brain evolved to seek out the “edge of informational chaos” — a place where our predictive models begin to break down, and in those uncertain zones, we actually have much to learn.
Oshan Jarow • Your mind needs chaos
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mail.google.com“God whispers: “I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.”
- Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun of the 1500s
- Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun of the 1500s